The Abandoned Wife's Second Chance

Avina Drene-Graves spent her first life being loyal, obedient, and blind to the rot around her—until she was framed, tortured, and murdered by her husband, her sister, and the family who raised her. But fate gives her a second chance. Reborn five years earlier, Avina vows to destroy the people who orchestrated her downfall. Her plan begins with the one man powerful enough to topple the Graves dynasty from within: Ronan Graves—her ex-husband’s cold, feared, dangerously controlled uncle. Avina seduces him with lies. He ensnares her with obsession. Their marriage becomes a weapon, their chemistry a battlefield. As Avina dismantles her enemies one by one, buried secrets crawl back to life—illegal experiments, missing people, and a hidden order that once claimed her mother. But when the shadows of the past target Ronan’s daughters, Avina must confront the darkest truth of all: Some monsters weren’t meant to be escaped. They were meant to be killed. *A dark rebirth romance filled with power, obsession, revenge, and a love that destroys everything in its way.* ⚠️ Content Advisory This story contains dark and mature themes, including past sexual assault (non-graphic), cult abuse, psychological and emotional manipulation, medical trauma, forced pregnancy themes, violence, kidnapping, and morally gray characters. Reader discretion is advised.

Kristoff was born to win, he had everything he could ever want, money, fame, women, sex. Life was just a game to him, he's only in it for the pleasure. Until he met Chance.

Rissa’s life never seemed to get better each passing day despite having a fated mate. She caught her fated mate having a secret affair with her step sister who always desires all she owned. To make matters worse he made a public show of her by humiliating and rejecting her openly and breaking the bond they had shared. Rissa was betrayed, broken, humiliated, torn apart and very upset that she decided to do a comeback by having a one night stand with a stranger who she didn't know was her second Chance mate by destiny and he was a freaking Lycan King who seem to have many dangerous dealings in his sleeves. Would Rissa ever find happiness or she wasn't destined to have one?

Mariella Giordano, the second daughter of a Mafia Boss, is neglected by her own family since birth. Giordanos makes her marry Leonardo Marchetti, the rival Mafia Boss, for compensation. The relationship between them is not the usual type because trying to kill each other is their love language.

My sister and I were both adopted from the same orphanage. When we got to choose our paths, she picked a prominent family in Edenorf City—wealthy, influential, and utterly untouchable. But the heir turned out to be twisted and cruel. He tormented her day in and day out. I chose the unassuming Moss family. They didn't have the fortune or the status of her new family, but they treated me with genuine warmth. In time, their youngest son became a business titan, and he married me, giving me a life filled with more happiness than I'd ever dreamed possible. Consumed by jealousy, my sister secretly strangled me. But when I opened my eyes again, I found she had shamelessly stolen the life I’d built—this time, choosing the Moss family for herself. "Carmen," she sneered, "now it's your turn to suffer." I almost laughed out loud. Did she think the Moss heir was some simple jackpot?

Duke Patrick is a 38 year old doctor.He is married to a lovely lady named Alicia who later dies mysteriously.He later meets his old highschool friend Amanda and decides to give love a second chance by marrying Her.Later on he is threatened by his step brother to give him the diamonds their father left or his pregnant wife be killed.

"Remember your position, I made you my wife just to make up for all your father's debts!" one fact that really hurt Anyelir's heart. She became a second wife, in order to pay off debts. Things start to happen, after Anyelir becomes Devan's wife, in order to pay off her father's debt and save her familly from poverty. Anyelir still gets bad treatment from her stepsister and Rose who is none other than her own biological mother. Then, what about Devan, a man full of mystery and secrets, making it seem as if it is difficult for Anyelir to break thorough Devan's walls. LIfe dosen't seem to be on Anyelir side, with her circumstances forcing her to be second.

The beastfolk are a powerful race, and to strengthen our family's power, Father arranges marriages for both me and my stepsister, Arya Hearthguard. In our past lives, Arya entered a high-profile marriage into the wealthy, powerful dragon clan, while I was forced to wed into the crumbling lion clan. The clan leader of the dragons—Draken Vorgath—was cold and detached. He cared more for gold than his bride, leaving Arya in a glided cage of loneliness. Overwhelmed by the desolation, she seduced the future leader of the fox clan, who was flirtatious.. And when the scandal exploded, Draken resolutely divorced her. Arya's scandal brought shame upon our family. Despite Father's favoritism, he was compelled by family honor to exile her in disgrace. Clan leader of the lions and King of the Jungle—Kael Hawthorne—was a man of unwavering devotion. Our marriage blossomed, and within a year, I bore him a golden lion cub blessed with the Aetheric Divinity. With the Aetherborn, Kael rose to rule all beastfolk as the chieftain, and I became their most revered chieftess. Consumed by envy, Arya sneaked into my son's first birthday feast and strangled the golden lion cub in his cradle. Then, she set the place ablaze and burned me alive along with it. When I wake up, I am back on the very day of our marriage. This time, Arya volunteers to marry into the lions and leaves me the chance to marry into the dragons. I accept everything meekly with only a tenth of her dowry and marry Draken. Later, she bleeds her dowry dry, propping up the lion clan, only to fail in conceiving a cub. When the elders demand she mate with other males, regret drowns her. As for me, all I want in his new life is an heir and a quiet life among the dragons. But no one warns me about the dragons, least of all that my supposedly cold-hearted husband will relentlessly demand me once awakened. Or that his members came in pairs and ridges!

When I found out he was my mate I knew he wouldn't leave her for me...I just hoped. She was beautiful and sweet and not in the fake kind of way either. He was the future alpha and she was the best fit for his future Luna. They looked and worked perfect together. He said the words that hurt me the most, "I can't be with you Elena, I love her." Fast forward six years... What happens when she goes away to college and comes back a new woman? Just how much has changed over the years? Read and find out! (Cover designed by @jullianreeds74)

19 years old Emily Watson has never understood what happiness is in most parts of her young life and she desperately wishes for a change and a saving grace from the constant wrath of her abusive step-parents but what will she do when she finds out her mate has been waiting for all her life is the cruel and cold-hearted Luka Demetrius? Will he be her saving grace or an unimaginable horrifying thunder to her raging storm?